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15 years ago

Poll: Do you want the internal simulator back?

One of the changes in Quartus 10.0 is the missing of the internal simulator. As some people here wanted a poll: Here we go... BTW: I have started a similar poll regarding the lpm-functions in t...
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14 years ago

Not everything is lost ...

Apparently Altera still supports (or repackaged?) a 'native' simulator under the University Program : quartus ii simulator tools for education (http://www.altera.com/education/univ/software/qsim/unv-qsim.html?gsa_pos=1&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=qsim)

I downloaded the .pdf and the images look very promising. I didn't install the University Program Installer yet, as I'm not sure whether it is appropriate for an engineering professional to do so. I'd suggest the university professors to give it a try ... I did install the UP (the actual license didn't exclude me from doing so) and ran a small test. It recognised an existing project, and even opened the existing waveform. But unfortunately it was a Cyclone IV E project ->

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Error: Current device family is not supported by simulation.

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Looks like I have to stick with Cyclone III or II to simulate my building blocks.

I did the same exercise for a .bdf project with Cyclone II, and everything worked fine! The presentation is different like Q10.1 is, but adapting will go quick.